DENVER, Sept. 15 (UPI) -- U.S. company Lockheed Martin says its Airborne Multi-Intelligence Laboratory has again demonstrated its advanced intelligence integration capabilities.
During recent experimental flights the intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance laboratory disseminated real-time intelligence data -- including streaming video, imagery and communications feeds -- to a ground station, demonstrating intelligence collection, analysis, processing and dissemination.
"The AML has proved itself as a test platform for next generation intelligence sensors," said Jim Quinn, vice president with Lockheed Martin's Information Systems & Global Solutions -Defense. "Customers are concerned with the speed of solution delivery, reducing the risk of those solutions and delivering differentiated capability affordably. The AML offers customers a highly capable, flexible system that can be used to meet immediate needs and respond to critical challenges."
Lockheed said that during the experiments, the AML relayed streaming video as well as previously collected communications and electronic intelligence to a ground station at the corporation's SWIFT laboratory in Farnborough, England. Staff at the SWIFT Lab were able to view and analyze the data and also update mission plans and tasks.
The multi-INT data sent to the SWIFT laboratory were linked with the Distributed Common Ground System Integration Backbone at another Lockheed Martin facility in Colorado.
DCGS is the U.S. Department of Defense enterprise that collects and processes vast amounts of intelligence and imagery from manned and unmanned reconnaissance sources.
"This exercise demonstrated the AML's ability to transfer intelligence between coalition forces," the company said in a news release. "It also reinforced that, with minimal development time, customers can use the AML to determine the optimum mix of sensors and systems to fill existing capability gaps to support contingency operations."
